January 2009 NPD Data In - Xbox 360 Beats Playstation 3
by Eric Bush
We just got the latest NPD date in for January 2009 and it looks as though Microsoft is starting off the year right, selling a total of 309,000 Xbox 360 consoles; the system also had three software titles in the month's top ten sellers. All the details are below: Hardware Unit Sales - Jan-09: PlayStation 2 101.2K PlayStation 3 203.2K PSP 172.3K Xbox 360 309K Wii 679.2K Nintendo DS 510.8K
Top 10 Software SKU’s - January 2009: Title Publisher Platform Rank # Units WII FIT NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 1 777K WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 2 415K MARIO KART W/WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA WII 3 292K LEFT 4 DEAD ELECTRONIC ARTS 360 4 243K CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR* ACTIVISION BLIZZARD 360 5 235K SKATE 2 ELECTRONIC ARTS 360 6 199K GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR* ACTIVISION BLIZZARD WII 7 155K NEW SUPER MARIO BROS NINTENDO OF AMERICA NDS 8 135K MARIO KART DS NINTENDO OF AMERICA NDS 9 132K LORD OF THE RINGS: CONQUEST ELECTRONIC ARTS PS3 10 113K
Dollar Sales Jan-09 Jan-08 CHG Video Games $1.33 Billion $1.18 Billion 13% Video Games Hardware $445.4 Million $380.3 Million 17% Video Games Software $676.6 Million $614.7 Million 10% Video Game Accessories $209.8 Million $188.3 Million 11%